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We  liked Chris so we kept him

Our school used to be a normal boring school. One big class. One mean teacher. Mr Norman made us do maths all day and gave us all detention for no reason. One day a new kid came to our school named Brane. He liked science and inventing things. He didn’t like Mr Norman at all so he went to some boys and asked them to help him make a machine that can swap people. The boys said

“What for?’’

“To change our teacher.’’

“Okay’’ said the boys.

So the boys came over to Brane’s house. He drew his design and they started building it in his garage. Brane got the boys to hand tools to him and then he was finished.

The next day he took it to school and before Mr Norman said anything Brane pressed the button. Mr Norman disappeared and the machine came up with a little old lady. The little old lady made us clip her toenails and taught us knitting. No one liked the  old lady so Brane pressed the button again, and a cool guy came.

He had spiky hair and a really big smile.  He said:

“Hey everyone, my names Mr Baxter but you can call me Chris. My only rule is to have fun but don’t get hurt.”

We had free time all day from 9.00 to 3.00. Then one day Chris won the gold lotto so he could pay for all new stuff.

On Monday we played on the computers and Playstation 3 or watched TV. On Tuesday we played normal games down stairs like footy and the Cowboys coach came and taught us cool skills and the Crocs coach came and did basketball training with us.

Wednesday was a special day. The show came and we got to go on all the rides for free.

On Thursday we went to  town, to the movies and the Ingham pool.

On Friday we could do anything we wanted. We  liked Chris so we kept him. 

  © Cameron, Ingham, Australia, 2007

         

 

 

 

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